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Were Hamilton’s arguments for the bank better than Jefferson’s arguments against it?

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Thomas Jefferson opposed this plan. He thought states should charter banks that could issue money. Jefferson also believed that the Constitution did not give the national government the power to establish a bank. Hamilton disagreed on this point too.

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